Quotes About Pessimism

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

"You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself."

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

I think negative almost about everything jus to avoid being hurt from sh...

Being positive wont guarantee you'll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won't.

You can't have a good day with a bad attitude, and you can't have a bad day with a good attitude.

Every time people are being positive about something, there is always those few people that have to throw salt in the situation.

Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life.

Your present situation is greatly affected by your attitude towards life you can choose either to see everything in positive manner or in negative.

A negative thinker can never succeed in life as every opportunity will seem difficulty to him.

There are those who wake up and say, Good Morning, Lord, and there are those who wake up and say, Good Lord, its morning.

Often, as I reflected on this story, it seemed to me a kind of image of my own life—the life of a man who gorged himself on pessimism, believing he would find in it a means to a dazzling and meteoric existence, loving his own despair until the day he realized—too late—that he could no longer emerge from it, and that he had thus fallen into the trap of his own enchantments.

Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn't pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!

Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

You strike me as a 'glass half-empty' kind of guy, sir," he said. "I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.